Fossicking Park specializing in willaby use and Identification of Gemstones.
Miners of Commercial quantities of Sapphire.
Rough and Cut sapphire available for sale.
Armfest Pty Ltd
Commercial Miners for over 47 years on the Central Queensland Gemfields, also run Armfest Fossicking Park situated in a beautiful lagoon setting , open hours are 8 am to 12 noon . Our main focus is teaching tourists how to correctly use a willaby and identify the gemstones in raw sapphire wash supplied from our mining operations. The gemstones tourists have recovered during the morning session are then graded for gem cutting. All necessary information on cutting their gem finds are then supplied to them. Due to the area being a wildlife zone we have a strict no dog policy.
We also supply only Australian Cut and rough sapphire sourced directly from our mine sites. History Certificates, independant valuations and photographs of our investment sapphire range are supplied.

The New Royal Hotel at Rubyvale, winner of Queensland’s Best Bush Pub 2014 provides a unique experience with its log and billy boulder construction and sapphire field’s memorabilia, a real Australian outback pub. This quintessential Aussie Bush Pub has remained a place where travellers and locals alike can find a seat, a friendly word, cold beer, tasty meals, stories (lot of hilarious and doubtful stories!) and the kind of unpretentious welcome unique to Aussie bush pubs.
The pubs two Nepalese chefs have a great reputation for food with lunch and dinner served seven days a week, and a traditional roast on Sundays.
Accommodation is in log and billy boulder cabins located in the native garden, with their open wood fires and generous proportions they are popular with both couples and families.
Simply want to top up supplies then the bottle shop is also open seven days a week.

Coolamon Mining is owned and operated by Jim and Jenny Elliot and has been in existence since 1989. The primary aim of the Company is the promotion and sale of fine quality Australian sapphires to both the jewellery trade and to the public. The larger and more unusual stones are always facetted by local Gemfields cutters, while the smaller calibrated stock is cut in Bangkok by a very reputable factory. The stones are guaranteed to be free of beryllium or any other chemical modification and the only treatment they might receive is a simple heat treatment where necessary, and this is always disclosed to the purchaser. They issue their own Certificates of Authenticity to purchasers to guarantee the origin and authenticity of their sapphires.
Jim and Jenny Elliot first became involved in sapphire mining in 1984 when they were part of the consortium which was awarded the task of building the bitumen road between Sapphire and Rubyvale. By 1989 the road was completed and the Elliots had by then been bitten by the “sapphire bug” and consequently took up leases adjacent to the road reserve which had been mined prior to the building of the road. For many years the blue stone was sold to the Thai buyers who regularly visited the Fields, but it became obvious that this was not sustainable in the long term, so they gradually changed to dealing exclusively in facetted stone. This has required them to travel thousands of kilometres a year to Trade Fairs and Gem Shows, from Cairns to Hobart, and as far as South Australia, always promoting the Central Queensland Gemfields and the beauty of natural Australian sapphires. These days they rely on magazine and internet advertising to promote their product, and have reduced their show involvement to one Gem Club Show in Brisbane, and Gemfest.”

Miners' Heritage is Australia's Largest Walk-In Sapphire Mine Tour, starting life as a working mine in 1906 you can now explore 440 metres of tunnels at a depth of approx. 15 metres. Learn about the amazing world of Sapphires, spend some time in our underground museum, browse our award winning showroom where you will find the largest selection of Sapphire Jewellery on the Central Highlands. Fossick for your own gems in the Fossicking Park , pack a lunch & bring the family, we look forward to seeing you soon.